A new study
by the Pew
Center reveals that atheists are far more likely to see a conflict
between faith and science than religiousbelievers.

The report states that 73% of those who seldom or never
attend religious services say that science and religion are often in
conflict, while those who attend services at least once a week are 23% less
likely to say so.

Among the unaffiliated—a group that includes atheists,
agnostics, and those who belong to no religion in particular—the numbers are
even higher. More than three quarters (76%) of the unaffiliated say that science
and religion
are often in conflict.

The study further shows that people’s beliefs regarding a
conflict between science and religion reflect their perception of other
people’s conflicts rather than their own. Less than one-third of Americans
polled (30%) say that their personal religious beliefs conflict with
science, yet nearly double this number (59%) say that science and religion are
often in conflict.

More than two-thirds of those surveyed (68%) say there is no
conflict between their own beliefs and science.

In only five years, the percentage of American adults who
perceive a conflict between science and their own religious beliefs has
declined by a full six percentage points, from 36% in 2009 to 30% in 2014.

The study also found that in comparison with the religiously
unaffiliated, religious people are more likely to favor more offshore drilling,
to approve of fracking, to oppose stricter emission controls on power plants
and to be unafraid of world population growth.

For example, a full 70% of white evangelical Protestants
favor allowing more offshore oil and gas drilling, whereas among the
religiously unaffiliated the number is about half that (37%).

Similarly, about 64% of the religiously unaffiliated oppose
increased use of fracking to extract oil and natural gas, while only 35% of
white evangelicals oppose it.

Religion

Joanne
Leedom-Ackerman was a reporter for the Christian
Science Monitor, a director at the Human
Rights Watch, is a board member for the International Crisis Group, and a director at Refugees International.

George
Soros is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations, a board member for the International Crisis Group, a director
emeritus at Refugees International, Jonathan Soros’s father, was the
chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society, and a benefactor
for the Human Rights Watch.

Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Human Rights Watch, Refugees
International, the Sundance
Institute, the Natural Resources
Defense Council, the New America Foundation, Climate Reality Project, and the Pew Charitable Trusts.

Henry
W. McGee was a trustee at the Sundance
Institute, and is a governing board member for the Pew Research Center (think tank).

Robert
Redford is the founder & president for the Sundance Institute, and a trustee at the Natural Resources Defense Council.

Wendy
Schmidt is a trustee at the Natural
Resources Defense Council, and married to Eric E. Schmidt.

Eric E. Schmidt is married to Wendy Schmidt, the chairman of the New
America Foundation,a member
of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology,was
a funder for the New America Foundation,and a 2008 Bilderberg
conference participant (think tank).

Jonathan
Soros is a director at the New America Foundation,and George Soros’s son.

John P. Holdren
is a co-chair for the President's Council of Advisors on Science and
Technology,and the director
at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy for the Barack
Obama administration.

Maxine L. Savitz
is a member of the President's
Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, and a fellow at the American
Academy of Arts and Sciences.

William K. Reilly
was a member of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and
Technology, and a fellow at the American Association for the Advancement
of Science.

Barbara A. Schaal
is a member of the President's
Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, a director at the American
Association for the Advancement of Science, and the VP for the National
Academy of Sciences.

Rosina M.
Bierbaum is a member of the President's Council of Advisors on Science
and Technology, and a director at the Climate Reality Project.

E.
Floyd Kvamme was a co-chair for the President's Council of Advisors on
Science and Technology, and is a partner
emeritus at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.

Cindy
Harrell-Horn is a director at the Climate Reality Project, and a trustee at the Sundance Institute.

Henry
W. McGee was a trustee at the Sundance
Institute, and is a governing board member for the Pew Research Center (think tank).

Robert
Redford is the founder & president for the Sundance Institute, and a trustee at the Natural Resources Defense Council.

James Gustave
Speth is an honorary trustee at the Natural
Resources Defense Council, and a director at the Climate Reality Project.

Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Sundance Institute, the Natural
Resources Defense Council, the Climate
Reality Project, the New America Foundation, the Human Rights Watch, Refugees International, and the Pew Charitable Trusts.

George
Soros was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society, a
benefactor for the Human Rights Watch,
is a board member for the International
Crisis Group, and a director emeritus at Refugees International.

Joanne
Leedom-Ackerman was a director at the Human
Rights Watch, was a reporter for the Christian
Science Monitor, is a board member for the International Crisis Group, and a director at Refugees International.

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